Professors you can't stand

Toaster-Tony

Toaster-Tony

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Inspired by a 12 page paper coming up that I'm still not even sure what it's on, let's hear about some professors that absolutely suck at teaching.

I have one right now who says maybe a few constructive things each class, and instead, just bullshits with the group of students in the front of the room who suck up to him at every chance. The class is supposed to be Arthurian lit and Robinhood based but all we ever do is presentations on modern day movie remakes that, most of the time, have no resemblance to anything historically. A couple classes ago, we listened a 45 minute presentation on the rat pack.. literally nothing to do with this class. And when I go to his office hours for help, "everything is fair game for the final" is the criticism I receive. And he definitely lives up to that as he makes us recite random versus of the poetry, most of which that weren't discussed in class.

A perfect example of those who can't do, teach.

I'm done ranting now but there has to be some more people out there with terrible profs, let's hear some stories.
 
I always wanted to punch him in the fucking dick

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i had a prof for three courses now who is notoriously evil. she teaches concepts well but tests SO FUCKING HARD on them. i know at this point im not just whining about it either, because i have done many other courses that are just as difficult, but the test/exams are way more doable. hers are legit impossible sometimes. I just wrote a final that has about 25% of its weight put on a problem type that we never covered in class, it was literally beyond the scope of what she taught us. one of my TAs tried to do one like it and gave up during a review session 3 days before the final. people were very very upset about it to sya the least

ANYWAYS i think I am finally done with her now. *knock on wood

some profs suck, truth is, theres nothing you can do about it. just try to to the best you can because ranting (although it feels great) accomplishes nothing when you have no power over the situation. shitty profs help you grow more as a person than the great, easy profs do. life lessons.
 
I don't mind my profs. but there is one that says "turn around" a lot. As in; you turn around and do this, then you can turn around and do that. It's quite funny. I think the record right now is like 86 times in one 50 minute class.
 
I think I got pretty lucky with most of my professors. however some of them have huge egos. especially in the business school where a lot of the profs are very privately wealthy. they brag about their mercs, home theaters and such. ugh. shut up and teach.
 
i had a managerial economics professor in grad school that was quite possibly the hardest teacher i've ever had. class started with 35 people....ended with 7. fucker wouldn't even let you use a basic calculator. hated that guy, but respected him because i really learned a lot...but i had to bust my balls for it.
 
I had a horrible professor my freshman year that not only reeeeeeally sucked as a teacher but yelled at me for not trying enough at some point in the semester, and then when I tried harder accused me of plagiarism. Literally took me months to get my credits back, what a cunt she was. I still hate her so fucking much.

Also I had another prof who lost a final I handed in. This was a class I had an A- in mind you, and was probably the only person who even actively participated in his shit most of the time. Instead of either a) giving me a 0 on the final which would have left me with a B overall or b) not losing it to begin with, he gave me an Incomplete overall and robbed me of my credits completely. By the time I found out I had gotten an (i) and figured out why, he wouldn't take any responsibility for losing it OR take a late submission and also refused to even give me any credit for having participated in his class at all. If I ever see him out, I will literally slash his tires and wipe my own shit under his door handles.
 
It's also worth mentioning that perhaps my favorite prof T-boned me off my motorcycle in the U parking lot. Totaled the bike and sent me rolling off her hood and onto the grass. Hell of a teacher though! Great sense of humor and really knew how to relate a topic. If only her driving was as good as her teaching!
 
I had a English comp and lit two professor who graded so unfairly, that I went to the dean of English my school. She took one look at my five page paper I wrote and was completely on my side, she just said that the comments she wrote were not at all helpful at all, and she would've given the paper much higher grade, I got a 70 on it. She then sent a teacher an email And then she actually changed her way of teaching and grading, It was a huge victory for me.
 
12963531:zzzskizzz said:
I had a English comp and lit two professor who graded so unfairly, that I went to the dean of English my school. She took one look at my five page paper I wrote and was completely on my side, she just said that the comments she wrote were not at all helpful at all, and she would've given the paper much higher grade, I got a 70 on it. She then sent a teacher an email And then she actually changed her way of teaching and grading, It was a huge victory for me.
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If your paper was anything like this paragraph you should have been thrilled with a 70
 
12963503:Barefootin_Fiend said:
i had a managerial economics professor in grad school that was quite possibly the hardest teacher i've ever had. class started with 35 people....ended with 7. fucker wouldn't even let you use a basic calculator. hated that guy, but respected him because i really learned a lot...but i had to bust my balls for it.
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i wish i could post copies of the two exams i just wrote without a calculator... same prof i mentioned in my first post here. realistically i wouldnt have used a calculator for much other than simple divisions and stuff that i could do in my head but would double check. most of the test was on complex power, alternating current, phasor notation and some basic differential trig stuff, all of which a calculator is sorta useless for anyways. but i feel yo pain
 
I have a 300 level GPHY professor this semester that uses outdated maps/data, still uses overheads, can't speak well(he's Chinese but has been in the US for 15+ years if not more and has a doctoral in geography from University of Minnesota), who spelled Friday wrong on the board one day.

It's rough
 
Worst professor I had was for an EE class. The guy never came prepared to class. He would always try to teach without notes and fuck up examples all the time. We only covered half of the material that was on the syllabus. My highest test grade in his class was an 80%, the class average was always around 40%. The final he showed up 10 minutes late to tell us that he was just now printing out the final which took another 10 minutes. In the end he passed the entire class and we were the last class he taught.

Even though I got an A in the class I am pissed because I barely learned anything and it was the only EE class that ME and CE have to take so now were are all retarded when it comes to electricity.
 
12963593:TOAST. said:
Worst professor I had was for an EE class. The guy never came prepared to class. He would always try to teach without notes and fuck up examples all the time. We only covered half of the material that was on the syllabus. My highest test grade in his class was an 80%, the class average was always around 40%. The final he showed up 10 minutes late to tell us that he was just now printing out the final which took another 10 minutes. In the end he passed the entire class and we were the last class he taught.

Even though I got an A in the class I am pissed because I barely learned anything and it was the only EE class that ME and CE have to take so now were are all retarded when it comes to electricity.
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ha i feel ya with that class but mine was like the opposite...i had an EE professor for Circuits 220 or somethin and this guy made it seem like resistors, capacitors and inductors were rocket science. Everything was theory and hardly any practical examples. He expected you to be putting in like 8 hours a week extra for his class and studying on your own to do the examples and he was just gonna go over theory and shit. I think only like 5 EE students and maybe one ME passed that class. The other like 45 of us ME's and CE's all failed. I re-took the class the next year with a new professor after this douche went to VT or somethin, thank god, and the new guy was all about examples and it was probably the easiest class I took that semester.

I had one professor though that I still hate with a passion. I had him for Thermodynamics and he was so beat-around-the-bush and methodical with his lectures that he would literally go in circles over concepts and theory. We never used a fucking chart once in that class like every other normal thermodynamics class and he had a thick Argentinian accent and was so soft spoken that it was almost impossible to understand him. He also had shitty handwriting and everyone hated him. He even did a personal mid-semester instructor evaluation that he had the class take so he could fix some things about his style which I thought was cool because I thought he was legitimately going to try harder. He got the results, went through each question in class, and basically defended himself and said half of the problems were our own fault. Luckily i got through that class somehow after his shitty excuse for teaching and I never saw him again. That guy drives me insane.
 
Freshman year at WSU I had a prof for a math class. No calculators to be used in class for tests or homework... when showing us examples though he had to use one. Talk about bullshit.
 
My calc one teacher made test questions that were way harder than the hw/board questions on purpose. He said it was so he didn't have to grade as many questions lol.

It was stuff we'd never seen. I passed with a 61, then got a B in calc 2 and put in half the work. Some teachers just suck, it's the way it is.

We had problems we'd have to chain rule 8 or 9 times lol.
 
Hey, op, just be glad you don't actually have to read any Arthurian lit. Let me tell you, reading 100+ pages at a time in middle english sucks a whole lotta nuts, even if the stories themselves are entertaining.

Reading this thread sure does make me glad that I had a good experience with pretty much all my professors. Worst I ever had to deal with were professors who were too obviously partisan one way or another, or professors who were too into themselves and what they did.
 
12963827:Watts said:
Hey, op, just be glad you don't actually have to read any Arthurian lit. Let me tell you, reading 100+ pages at a time in middle english sucks a whole lotta nuts, even if the stories themselves are entertaining.

Reading this thread sure does make me glad that I had a good experience with pretty much all my professors. Worst I ever had to deal with were professors who were too obviously partisan one way or another, or professors who were too into themselves and what they did.
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That's the kicker. Every night he assigns a pretty big chunk of mostly untranslated work. It sucks trying to get through that for hours to listen to a lecture on whatever the hell he wants it to be on haha.

I just feel a bit shafted since half the stories aren't bad and I'd actually like to learn more about them.
 
12963837:Diabeeto said:
That's the kicker. Every night he assigns a pretty big chunk of mostly untranslated work. It sucks trying to get through that for hours to listen to a lecture on whatever the hell he wants it to be on haha.

I just feel a bit shafted since half the stories aren't bad and I'd actually like to learn more about them.
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Morte D'Arthur, I'm guessing? Or at least some of it. That really sucks to read.

The guy I took Arthurian lit. with was pretty cool. He was a relatively young guy and the most stereotypical english professor imaginable in how he dressed and spoke, and was also pretty generous with grades because he was a visiting professor who was only at the school for a year.

We did actually talk about the books in class, and you're not missing much. Going into the class I also thought it would be interesting to talk about historically, but it wasn't really, apart from the influence and significance that Arthur had on later British literature, which is surprisingly large.
 
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